Ashes of Betrayal: A Canada at War Prequel Novella

Major Alexander Ashcombe thought the danger ended in a clearing outside Bratislava.

He was wrong.

Sent to recover an off-books weapons ledger from a former arms broker, Ashcombe and his small SAS team expect a deniable raid with a clean exit. Instead, the target is killed, the extraction vanishes, and the men sent to erase the evidence already know where to find them.

Someone has compromised the mission from inside the system.

Hunted across borders by a professional clean-up crew, Ashcombe must keep his team alive while uncovering what the ledger really contains: names, contracts, and secrets powerful enough to destroy careers on both sides of the Atlantic. But the closer he gets to the truth, the clearer the message becomes.

This was never just about the ledger.

It was about burying everyone who touched it.

Ashes of Betrayal is a tense military-espionage thriller about loyalty, institutional betrayal, and the cost of surviving a mission your own side needed you to lose.